Financial crisis, vision and values

We got into the financial crisis mostly because housing lenders lost their vision for getting families into homes. People believe that thinking about vision is a luxury – an add-on that has to happen after the “real” work is done. The strongest leaders know that vision is part of the organizational DNA – if it’s strong, it will express well.

The world is on its economic knees because we allowed smart people with compromised moral compasses to lead the way. As a culture, we lost our value for values. We let several generations grow up thinking that infinite expansion is not only plausible but bankable. For the first time in the history of humanity, our culture is being sold to us by media giants instead of told to us by beloved elders and something extremely important got lost in the translation. And now,  information technologies are allowing us a renewed participation in creating the work we love, the lives we desire and the world we all want to live in.

Today’s leaders get far too little support for developing their vision and cultivating organizational values – the “softer” scaffolding of vital organizations. The Wisdom at Work coaching method helps create the hard and soft infrastructure necessary for reaching full professional potential.